IBM 5150 in S100?

[Chuck Guzis]

On 28 Mar 2011 at 21:52, steve shumaker wrote:

> On 3/28/2011 9:12 PM, David Griffith wrote:
> >
> > I just came across an 8086 S100 CPU board from Seattle Computer
> > Products and I started thinking...  How much trouble would it be to
> > use this board to come up with an IBM 5150 work-alike?  What sort of
> > custom boards would need to be made?
> >
> There apparently was work done in that vein by a small firm the bay
> area using standard compupro boards.   I scored a large S100 system
> about a year ago from one of the engineers that worked on it - a Mr
> Gary Helbig. 

As I recall the 85/88 setup, Godbout initially did not want to invest 
in an OEM license for MS-DOS, so a procedure was worked out where a 
standard PC-DOS ($40 from your local IBM retailer) system was used as 
the starting point with a new set of I/O drivers installed.

I used to have such a disk for test purposes--but I don't recall if I 
still have it.

--Chuck